Copacabana mon amour

Film Information:
Year:

1970

Copacabana mon amour

País:

 

Director:

Rogério Sganzerla

Color:

Color

Format:

35 mm

Duration:

85 min

Cast:

  • INTÉRPRETES: Helena Ignez,
  • Paulo Villaça, Otoniel Serra, Joãozinho da Goméia,
  • Guará Rodrigues

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Rogério Sganzerla
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Renato Laclete
  • MONTAJE: Mair Tavares
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Rogério Sganzerla, Júlio Bressane

Contact:

  • Contacto / Contact
  • Mercúrio Produçoes Ltda.
  • Helena Ignez
  • Rua Nestor Pestana, 87 -
  • Conjunto 101 - Consolação
  • 01303-010 Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • T +55 11 3256 8676
  • +55 11 3129 5745
  • F +55 11 3256 8676
  • E smercurioproducoes@gmail.com

Synopsis

In late 1969, Sganzerla teams up with Julio Bressane and they create the Belair production company, and in a couple of months in 1970 they produce three experimental feature films each. Copacabana mon amour is one of them–the other ones are Sem essa, aranha and Carnaval de lama. Where the pre-Belair films are experiments on narrative and editing, the Belair ones deal mostly with lengthy long take shots and improvisations for the camera (but all of them very thoroughly thought about in rehearsals). Filmed in color and Totalscope widescreen, Copacabana mon amour displays its actors (Otoniel Serra, Helena Ignez, Guará Rodrigues) with incredible presence and powerful music by Gilberto Gil. The Duras/Resnais reference the film takes its title from –Hiroshima mon amour– is just a slight clin d’œil. If this film were music, it would definitely be free jazz.

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